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Do you think Ginny’s need for everything to be under her control (which we still have to discuss how different it is from Hermione’s), besides the emotional and traumatic aspects, may also come from her fear of being powerless? Better put, of not having power? And that makes her strive for it more? If it is, it’s a very Slytherin trait for sure

Oh, yes. She would much rather be in a position to have power that she chooses not to use, than to not have power at all. I think it is definitely a Slytherin trait. But also definitely out of her trauma from Tom, from being completely powerless and swearing to herself that she would never find herself in that position of weakness again. I think this is something both Ginnys have in common, and was honestly one of the reasons I thought she could actually work in Slytherin. She isn’t interested in controlling others, only interested in controlling her own destiny and path, and anyone who would try to take that away from her.

And, yes, I think Hermione’s need to control comes from a different place. Primarily the belief that she knows better than everyone else. It probably sounds egotistical, and it is a bit, but it also comes from what I imagine is Hermione’s feeling that she is Very Smart, that this smartness has been ingrained in her as being her core characteristics, her one valuable trait. (She’s bad with people and emotions and does not easily make friends, and maybe panics under stressful situations and doesn’t make the best leader or dueler, but she can always count on being smart, on Knowing Useful Things, and it’s the one thing that if she puts her effort into it, it always pays off, whereas other areas it never seems to matter how hard she tries, it always goes wrong.) Hermione isn’t interested so much in power in and of itself, as in Doing What’s Right, and Knowing More Than Everyone Else What’s Best.

i have such a love for characters who descend into madness or villainy out of deep, deep empathy. characters who fundamentally cannot cope with the cruel realities they find themselves in and blow up about it in spectacular fashion. fallen angel type characters with tears of outrage in their eyes. characters who break before they bend, and break so badly they splatter blood all over their noble ideals. every variation on it gets me so good

oh my favorite trope? two people who go through something so unique and agonizing and entirely beyond words that they have no choice but to create a bond that transcends all other types of love, thus acting as the sole point of understanding for the other person in a world that cannot fathom what they’ve been through

i love you betrayals between people who still love each other i love you devotion to the point of destruction i love you selfish choices made in the name of love i love you devastating consequences of those choices

(via FlimsyFlamingo on Twitter)

stop… making… her… a… MOM FIGURE !!! *my psychic powers throw everything across the room*

I’m a cis-gender man which basically means that, when I was born, the doctor went “It’s a boy!” and when I was old enough to understand I agreed with him.

The thing is, I don’t know why I feel like a man.  I was teased and bullied for it a lot when I was little.  I’ve never had stereotypically American male interests.  I never cared about sports or cars or guns.  I was more interested in music and cooking and the arts.  I’ve always been emotionally in tune and sensitive, even when I did my best to suppress my emotions to survive a childhood of abuse from other children.

It’s not physical either.  I don’t feel like a man because I have a penis or a beard.  If you put my brain in a robot body or any other body, my essence would still feel male (I assume).  I literally can’t imagine what being any other gender would feel like, since I feel so acutely male.

I think that’s why the concept of being transgender always made sense to me.  I’m a man.  I don’t have any bloody clue why I feel like a man, but I don’t feel that it’s tied to my body or my interests or the way that I’ve been treated.  I feel like a man because of something beyond that.  Something ephemeral.  So, why couldn’t others feel the same?  Why couldn’t a person who’s been misidentified as a girl feel like a boy for the exact same nebulous reasons that I do?

And, since gender really doesn’t make any sense to me anyway, why couldn’t there also be people who feel as if they don’t have one?  Or who flow across genders like a ship on a map?

Are there people out there whose sense of their own gender is inseparable from their physical form?  If you put those people into robot bodies or, simply, other physically different bodies, would their gender identity also swap?  If so, why?  Are they actually more lost in their gender identity than I am and they need to hone in on the physical in order to anchor themselves?

Why do people feel like they are the gender that they are?

The thing about Those White People Baby Names is the way they so poetically express the tension between individuality and rigid conformity. These parents all want to name their child something unique, because they value the concept of uniqueness, yet simultaneously they abhor it in practice… ergo, 30 different spelling variations on the most normative possible names. This homogeneity-masquerading-as-diversity is inseparable from capitalist consumer culture and in fact is directly analogous to the experience of walking into a grocery store and being asked to “choose” between 50 varieties of toothpaste with the same exact ingredients, 12 brands of laundry detergent, etc.

Boring old werewolf instincts:

Sexual jealousy

Constant aggression

Rigid hierarchy

Must win sports

Homophobia And Sexism Is Normal™

Eat people

Cool new werewolf instincts:

There is no five second rule

Corvids are friends

Hang out as a pack

Karaoke

Gotta pee

I’m very quickly realizing that I struggle with making a hateable character. Or even just a character you’re kind of annoyed with in general, because then I get annoyed with them and I want to make them say something nicer or have a more kind minded perspective of everything. It’s such a bad habit, like NO, make the character who they are, they’ll grow later if they ever get the chance to.

Malik is supposed to be this arrogant, kind of cocky Captain, don’t get me wrong he’s not incapable of being kind or respectful, but I still want that attitude to be even subtly given off. Like you just feel that, “you’re still beneath me but I guess you’re not so bad so I’ll play nice”, kind of attitude. I just haven’t written enough I think, so I’m rewriting lines and inside thoughts differently every time I think it’s “too much” when it should be okay that it’s too much.

I don’t know if there’s tips on how to do that or if I just have to keep writing until it sounds right. “Practice makes perfect”, but I don’t want to practice, lol.

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Character Sheet {Masterlist}

Name: Caspian Glaucus

Age: 25

Height: 5’ 11” [Human Form] ; 8’ 5” [Siren Form]

Weight: 175 lbs [Human Form] ; 350 lbs [Siren Form]

Eye Color: Yellow w/ Specs Of Gold

Markings: Vitiligo w/ A Moon Crest On His Back

Scarring: None [Yet]

Sexuality: Bisexual

Family Status:

Siren Royalty

Parents: Mother and Father [Alive]

Sibling(s): Sister [Alive]

Background:

Caspian has had a relatively easy life. He’s a siren Prince that lives in an underwater palace along the Mediterranean Sea. He had a good childhood, although some might call him spoiled, because he is. He likes to do whatever he wants when he can. Sometimes sneaking off to play or go on adventures with other sea creatures. Sometimes you’ll catch him messing with fishermen and releasing sea animals that were caught in nets. He’s not very fond of humans, his father hates them too, but his mother tries to keep an optimism that’s fleeting.

Building up to the present day story, Caspian had escaped the palace to go mess around with some dolphins. A vicious storm caught him off guard and the waves ended up forcibly dragging him through the sea away from home. Landing him into the northern Atlantic. That’s how he ended up so far west towards the Caribbean.

His family name, Glaucus, was true to its origins as the royal family were only ever representative of Glaucus Atlanticus characteristics. As the generation went on, sirens became more powerful and learned how to use their powers and now they can shift to different creatures.

Royalty have distinct features that separate them from their common folk. Their eyes for example, they will always be a variation of gold or purple and they’ll have two freckles diagonal from each other in the iris. One feature that’s rare, but still only presents itself in royal bloodlines is the birthmark of a moon crest. Caspian has one on his back. What’s special about it is that— HA! I’m not going to spoil it until we get to that part 🙈 He couldn’t get the best of both worlds though, because those with the crest aren’t born with a siren song. So his voice doesn’t have an effect on anyone.

Personality:

You better believe this guy is spoiled. He inherited some entitlement and sadism from his father, while still inheriting some compassion and respect from his mother. He can be really defiant and rebellious, mostly because his parents always tried to keep him cooped up. If anybody defies him or says anything he takes offense to, his immediate thought process tends to result in thinking about hurting them. He doesn’t always go through with it if it’s too dramatic of a response. Mercy doesn’t always come so easy to him, though. That being said, he can be very playful and easy going when he’s alone with people or creatures he likes. When he doesn’t someone, he can get a big ego trip from overpowering them and putting them in their place until they crumble at his feet.

Hobbies:

Collecting Sea Glass and Sea Shells

Playing w/ Other Sea Creatures and Animals

Visiting Land to Observe Humans

Tearing Sailors Nets to Save Sea Life

Racing Dolphins

Exploring the Deep Sea

Fun Facts:

Has the Ability to Shift Appearance Like Different Sea Creature Characteristics and Be a Human

Was Born Without His Siren Song 🫢

Twin Sister

He Has a Taste For Human Food

I’ll add more later if I have anything else to say.

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Snape lovers, canon text, word of God: Snape was morally grey and did both good and bad things. He is an imperfect, messy, realistic victim of trauma and abuse and he also perpetuated some of that abuse in his own way. His redemption arc is only meaningful because of the bad things and because he recognised them as such and gave up the entire rest of his life to atone for it, doing miserable things he hated, being a person he hated, never experiencing love again. He couldn’t undo the things he had participated in, but he was a necessary piece in winning the war and without him Voldemort would have won. There is nothing more he could have possibly done; if he had gone to Azkaban or killed himself he would not have been able to play that part. He did not get off without punishment because he punished himself every day by giving up his life and any chance of happiness to do it, believing he would always be hated and no one would know his true loyalties or sacrifice. He was murdered before he could even know it hadn’t all been in vain, a death that even the murderer recognised was for petty reasons. He is a jerk, he is selfless, he is mean, he is a victim, he is a former Death Eater, he is a hero. He is all of these things at once and that’s what makes his story compelling.

Snape haters: lol he was the devil and he died because he was bitten by a snake, which he deserved because he was mean to students sometimes